First Studio Shot

My daughter had a figure skating competition today and so I had her stay in her outfit until we got home to take some pics with my new studio gear. I used my 40D and 24-105L. Genesis 200 (setting 60) into umbrella 45 degrees above and angled to subject camera left. Genesis 200 into umbrella (setting 40) angled towards background camera right. SS 1/60, f8, ISO 100. Couple things I noticed:

The white paper gets dirty where we step and I'm not very good at cloning yet so I'll have to get better.

I blew out the flowers in her hair so I'll try and pay more attention to that next time (I actually think I over processed them in CS4)

Since I was using seamless paper I had to have her keep her skate guards on so if anyone has any suggestions on that I would appreciate it. I was thinking of just getting her some white guards for white backgrounds and black ones for black to make them not stick out so much. I forgot to clone out the spot on her left foot where you can see a hole in her nylon (just noticed it while typing).

This is my first so I'm definitely looking for some feedback. Here's the shot:

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Great picture, think the pose is a little "rude boy" for a skating princess

I like the lighting a lot. and nice energetic pose

Yeah, we tried the whole stand there and look pretty thing at first and it just didn't capture her personality very well (she loves to pose), so I told her to just have fun and do whatever she felt like. This was the only one from the series I've had a chance to process so far. Don't let her fool you Carerra, she's all princess .

I love the contrast between the attitude and the "skating princess" outfit. It's cute. Great job.